Sentence examples for essentially the same level from inspiring English sources

What Bill James and his acolytes insisted was, simply, that the future would be like the past — that ball players would perform in the majors at essentially the same level that they did in the minors.

It reported that the average hourly wage for private-sector workers in the city was $30.78 in July, up from $30.32 in July 2010 and essentially the same level — $30.33 — as three years ago.

PARIS -- International fisheries negotiators agreed Saturday to maintain the 2011 catch of endangered Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna at essentially the same level as in 2010, eliciting a stinging rebuke from conservationists, who had been calling for a fishing moratorium.

"While there could be many ways to question this calculation," he said, "that the market would be at essentially the same level as it was in 1966 — when there were no PCs, no Internet, no flexible manufacturing, no software industry, and when our work force was half and our net capital stock was a third of what it is today — may be regarded by some as the sale of the century".

Compared with the optimum power allocation method, the proposed two-step method reduces the dimensions of the bisection search space while achieving essentially the same level of sum rate.

In an effort to rule out the possibility of contamination and confirm the pivotal role of hydrogen in lubricity of DLC films, we ran similar tests with the same hydrogen-free DLC in deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) and achieved essentially the same level of reduction in friction.

The mutant produces essentially the same levels of solvents as the wild-type with possibly a slight reduction in butanol levels (Additional file 4: Fig. S5).

Western blot analysis showed essentially the same levels of Bcl-2, Bcl-XL, Mcl-1, Bax, p53 and FLIPL/S among NKL, TL1 and TL2.

The segment polarity gene en and the Notch pathway gene insv were expressed in a stripe-like pattern in each parasegment in the ectoderm of wild-type germ band extended embryos; however, while all of the cells in the en stripes appeared to express essentially the same levels of En protein (Fig.  9d,h) only a subset of the cells in the insv stripes expressed Insv (Figs.  8d and 9c).

Essentially on the same level are the dialects of Jaina texts, but in these a y glide noted by grammarians occurs when a consonant is elided: vayaṇa- 'face' (Sanskrit vadana-); sayala- 'whole' (Sanskrit sakala-).

By his own calculations (he got his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Virginia when he was 23), Mr. Saiers says volatility levels on Japan's Nikkei are up about 250 percent since the earthquake hit, essentially at the same level they were at in 2008, which suggests investors still expect a lot of ups and downs there.